writers' room

English

Noun

writers' room (plural writers' rooms)

1. (television) The room in which the showrunner and the writers of a television series collaborate on the plot and develop the script.
   • 2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

     The showrunner ist the ringmaster for the writers' room—the final authority. There is some form of a whiteboard on the walls of the room, where the plots for future episodes are outlined.